GRADUATE PROGRAM IN SPACEGRADUATEGRADUATE PHYSICS PROGRAMPROGRAM ININ The Southwest Research Institute Space Physics Graduate To apply, visit www.utsa.edu SPACEProgram through PHYSICS the Universitywith specialization of Texas at San Antonio The Southwest Research Institute Space Physics Graduate To apply, visit www.utsa.edu PHYSICSProgram through the Universityin SPACE of Texas atPHYSICS San Antonio To apply, visit www.utsa.edu A Joint Program between the University of Texas at San Antonio and Southwest Research Institute
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For more information, visit our website (grad.space.swri.edu) or contact Mihir Desai ([email protected]). THE SPACETHE GRADUATE PHYSICS PROGRAM GRADUATE IN PHYSICS PROGRAM Students in the program are prepared for a career in Space Physics through research-focused coursesStudents and investigations in the program with are spaceprepared flight for missions a career. Thisin Space is performed Physics through alongside research- world class facultyfocused in SwRI’s courses state-of-the-art and investigations facilities forwith construction space flight and missions. calibration Students of space work flight RESEARCH alongside world-class faculty in SwRI’s state-of-the-art facilities for construction instrumentation. SwRI’sRESEARCH Graduate Research and calibration of space flight instrumentation. 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Faculty members have music capital of numerousserved as NASA PI and and Co-I ESA for numerous flight instruments NASA • Southwest Research Institute capital of Texas and the world.” and and missions ESA flight with instruments involvement and onmissions IMAGE, with New • The EuropeanALUMNI Space Research and the “live music Horizons,involvement ACE, Ulysses, on IMAGE, STEREO, New TWINS, Horizons, SWIFT, ACE, TRICE-2, AlumniTechnology of the Centre program (ESTEC) are now at various capital of the IBEX, Ulysses,MMS, Van STEREO, Allen TWINS, Probes, Swift, Cassini, TRICE-2, GREECE, IBEX, MMS, Juno, LRO, Rosea, universities,• Laboratoire government d’Astrophysique labs, and de research Van Allen Probes, Cassini, Mars Express, GREECE, Rosetta, world”. and LRO along with future missions such as Solar Probe Plus, Solar institutionsMarseille (France)such as: Juno, and Parker Solar Probe along with future missions such • University of California - Berkeley Orbiter,as Lucy, JUICE, Solar BepiColumbo, Orbiter, JUICE, Europa BepiColombo, Mission, and Europa cubesat Clipper, missions IMAP, such - The European Space Research and • UniversityTechnology of New CentreHampshire (ESTEC) PUNCH, TRACERS, andas CubeSat CeREs and missions CuSPP+. such as CeREs and CuSP. • University of Iowa - Johns Hopkins University • Boston University SwRI is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, and has campuses around the Applied Physics Lab SwRI world.has campuses With over around 3,000 employees,the world, with SwRI its is headquartersa world-renowned in San institution Antonio, benefiting TX. With over • NASA GSFC - NASA• JHU Goddard APL Space 3,000 employees,government, SwRI industry, is a world-renowned and the public institution through innovative benefiting science government, and technology. industry, and the Flight Center public through innovative science and technology. - UC Berkeley